2017 1988 30th Annual ENVIR THON

Thursday, May 18, 2017 Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Lincoln, Mass. Welcome! Today we celebrate 30 years of Massachusetts Envirothon teams! Teamwork is at the heart of the Envirothon experience. You work hard with your teammates, depend on their knowledge and skills, listen to their ideas, and draw on their connections. In the real world, too, success comes from working together. As chair of the Massachusetts Envirothon Steering The drumlin at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary committee, I am acutely aware of the importance of teamwork. Working with This Year’s Registered Teams dedicated Envirothon volunteers is one of the things I have enjoyed most about this role. • Acton-Boxborough Regional High School • Middleborough High School Today we are especially grateful that Mass • Andover High School • Millbury Jr./Sr. High School Audubon, especially the staff of Drumlin • Ashland High School • Monson Environmental Action Team (MEAT) • Bristol County Agricultural High School • Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, is on the Envirothon • /Wildland Trust • team. What a perfect site for this event! • • Norfolk County Agricultural High School While teams are competing with each • Deerfield Academy • other today, in a larger sense we are all on • Dighton Rehoboth Regional High School • Pioneer Valley Regional School the same team. When it comes to protecting • Doherty Memorial High School • Plymouth South High School and conserving natural resources, we are all • Essex Technical High School, NRM • Reading Memorial High School working together. We have some star players, • Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech High School • Rockland High School • Greenfield High School but no player succeeds alone. • Seekonk High School • • Shepherd Hill Regional High School The Envirothon is a place where the next • Innovation Academy Charter School • generation is introduced to the joys and • Leicester High School • Springfield Central High School challenges of environmental stewardship. • Lexington High School • Worcester Technical High School Speaking for the Envirothon and the whole • Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe environmental community of Massachusetts, I’d like to say: Schedule...... 2 2017 CURRENT ISSUE Steering Committee...... 2 Welcome to the team! Station Coordinators...... 2 Mass. Envirothon Council...... 2 What Happens at an Ecostation?...... 3 Community Awards...... 3 2017 Current Issue...... 4 Will Snyder, Chair Agricultural Current Issue Presentation Judges...... 5

Mass. Envirothon Steering Committee Volunteers...... 6 INSIDE Soil and Water Massachusetts Envirothon History....7 About This Year’s Host Site ...... 7 Conservation Sponsors & Partners...... 8 2017 Massachusetts Envirothon Mass. Envirothon Steering Committee Will Snyder, MESC Chair UMass Extension, Center for Agriculture, Food & the Environment Kelley Freda, MESC Vice Chair Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation, Water Supply Protection Justin Gonsor, MESC Secretary Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation Dan Giza ASA Analysis & Communications Joe Perry Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation Lisa Trotto Worcester County Conservation District George Zoto Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection Steering Committee Advisory Members Al Averill USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Wendell Cerne Mass. Science Education Leadership Association Schedule Meg Colclough Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Bill Dunham Belmont Enterprises 7:30 - 8:30 Registration for teams, volunteers Amie Humphrey Facendola Alden Research Laboratory, Inc. and judges Pam Landry Mass. Division of Fisheries & Wildlife Teams confirm their stations and Rick LeBlanc Mass. Dept. of Agricultural Resources presentation time Julie A. Martin Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation Team pictures Elizabeth McGuire Middlesex Conservation District 8:00 Orientation for volunteers and Matthew Nash Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation judges Dominique Pahlavan Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs 8:30 - 8:45 WELCOME and announcements Diane Baedeker Petit USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Clif Read Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation • Commissioner Leo Roy, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Judy Reilly Bristol-Myer Squibb Recreation Kris Scopinich Mass Audubon Brita Dempsey Mass. Envirothon Coordinator • Gary Clayton, President, Mass Audubon ...... 9:00 - 10:05 First period Station Coordinators/Curriculum Specialists 9:00 - 9:30 Current Issue 1.1 Al Averill USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service 9:35 - 10:05 Current Issue 1.2 Kelley Freda Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation, Water Supply Protection 10:15 - 11:20 Second period Pam Landry Mass. Division of Fisheries & Wildlife 10:15 - 10:45 Current Issue 2.1 Dominique Pahlavan Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Joe Perry Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation 10:50 - 11:20 Current Issue 2.2 Will Snyder UMass Extension, Center for Agriculture, Food & the Environment 11:30 - 12:35 Third period 11:30 - 12:00 Current Issue 3.1 ...... 12:05 - 12:35 Current Issue 3.2 Massachusetts Envirothon Council 12:35 - 1:45 EnviroTrek Lunch Joe Smith, MEC Chair President, Mass. Association of Conservation Districts 12:45 - 1:45 Informal team displays and Matthew Beaton Secretary of Energy & Environmental Affairs conversations. Visit exhibits and Mary Bell College of Natural Sciences, UMass Amherst info tables on ecostation tests, George Buckley Harvard Extension School Student Conservation Association Stuart A. Cain President, Alden Research Laboratory, Inc. and Mass. Envirothon Council. Deborah Cary Mass Audubon 1:45 Group photo, evaluation surveys Warren Chamberlain Mass. State Grange 2:00 Announcement of Community Meg Colclough Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Awards Michelle Fineblum Mass. Envirothon parent Matthew Goode Suffolk County Conservation District Steve Goodwin Dean, College of Natural Sciences, UMass Amherst Jeff LaFleur Mass. Association of Conservation Districts Marion Larson Mass. Division of Fisheries & Wildlife Nathan Nesbitt Mass. Envirothon alumnus Jennifer Norwood Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Eric Seaborn National Grid Will Snyder UMass Extension, Center for Agriculture, Food & the Environment

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2 www.massenvirothon.org 2017 Massachusetts Envirothon Come to the What happens at an Ecostation? EnviroTrek Lunch! t the Massachusetts Envirothon, Ateams rotate through four ecostations, When the testing is over, everyone is invited in addition to giving their Current Issue to eat lunch, unwind, make new friends from presentation. Each ecostation has a different across the state and share connections at the emphasis: forestry, soil, water and wildlife. EnviroTrek Lunch. Here’s how it works: When students arrive at each ecostation, All through the year, teams work hard, the examiners instruct them to get into their play hard, meet new people, find new places, distinct teams. Teams listen to examiners try new experiences, get wet, dirty and tired, for a brief time to become familiar with that design a t-shirt, stay up late to prepare and station, its questions and any other special generally have a good time through the year as instructions. they get ready for the May Envirothon. This is their EnviroTrek! It’s then up to the team to determine their strategy in taking the exam. They can During the EnviroTrek Lunch, each team break up and use individual strengths (for has a home table. At each table, at any given example, one or two people focus on species time, two or three “home team” members ID, while the others do the written section), share their team’s experiences with “visitors” or go through the exam as a team. from other teams. The ecostations generally incorporate The place buzzes with stories, ideas, questions that are: opinions and concerns as each home team shows and tells about their experiences. • Written – multiple choice, true or false Visitors, who move from table to table, offer or fill-in-the-blank. questions and views. Team members take • Practical – This may include species turns sitting at the home table and visiting identification, questions that relate to the other tables. soils or habitat surrounding the station EVERYONE at the Envirothon – teams, and hands-on activities. judges, coaches, volunteers, sponsors – is welcome to join in!

Community Awards for Research & Action

hy Community Awards? Teams award, they must show that they have been All kinds of action projects are possible: Wwork hard to prepare for their resourceful in using a range of research community education, advocating for change, Envirothon Current Issue presentation. They strategies – exploring community places, collecting data, or hands-on conservation deserve recognition for this work! And if talking to a variety of people, using maps, projects in the field. They might plug into their research results in a service or action researching at the library and town offices, and an existing community effort, or develop a project that benefits their community, this using the web. project of their own. also should be recognized. The Massachusetts The Community Action Award is On the day of the Envirothon competition Envirothon Community Awards provide presented to teams who take what they teams meet with an Envirothon volunteer who important recognition for teams, plus learn in their Current Issue research and use will interview them about their experiences visibility for schools and their communities. that knowledge to benefit their community. preparing for the award(s). Teams who work to qualify for the awards The Community Awards are a great tell us that they have a better Envirothon opportunity to spread the word about the good experience overall. Everybody wins! These work that Envirothon teams do! awards are optional and non-competitive. They can be earned by any team that meets Teams who earn the awards receive the requirements for the awards. Teams can recognition and a certificate at the May earn one or both of these awards: competition. A letter of congratulations is sent to each team’s principal, with copies to their The Community Research Award is coaches, superintendent, community partners, presented to teams who have done thorough state legislators, local news media contacts and and wide-ranging community investigation the state Secretary of Energy & Environmental in preparation for their Current Issue Affairs. S presentations. To meet the standard for the www.massenvirothon.org 3 2017 Massachusetts Envirothon 2017 Current Issue Agricultural Soil and Water Conservation

ocal agriculture is booming in Massachusetts, Lfrom urban community gardens to rural How does the orchards and pastures, from row crops to working forests. Local garden, farm, and forest Current Issue work? production can strengthen local economies In this component of the Envirothon – providing not only food and fiber, but also program, teams research a current fostering community. environmental issue as it occurs in More local agriculture also means more their own community, then prepare intensive use of local land and water resources, a presentation on their findings and with the potential for resource depletion, proposed solutions. pollution and increased pressure on local The Massachusetts Envirothon ecosystems and biodiversity. In addition, Committee works to ensure that the climate change is shifting the basic conditions topic is relevant to ALL Massachusetts for growing – bringing long term warming, communities. short term weather volatility and increased intensity in the water cycle that affect soil chemistry, water availability and ecology in products here, given the soil, water, and people fundamental ways. resources in our community. They were asked to make recommendations about what can be done Healthy soil and water resources provide to maximize this potential while remediating, essential ecosystem services for forest and protecting and enhancing local soil and water farm production. And well managed farms resources for the long run. and forests can contribute in a variety of ways to preventing and reducing the effects of In order to formulate sound accelerating climate change. recommendations, and present them with authority, teams needed to develop two kinds of How can we keep these essential resources expertise at two scales: Wide-ranging community research healthy as we use them? Can we build healthy is encouraged, including field study; soils that ensure a supply of high quality food On the large scale, they developed a good interviews of scientists, advocates, local and fiber and at the same time protect our water grasp of the land and water resources across officials and residents; internet and resources and ecosystem future? your community, how they contribute to the library searches; map reading; and visits economy and human welfare, and what the This year’s Envirothon Current Issue problem to Town Hall. problems and opportunities are. Maps and focuses on the essential, fundamental ecosystem field study were essential, as was getting to At the competition, teams present services that soil and water provide, and on know natural resource managers, local officials, their Current Issue findings and decisions and actions for the management and and environmental advocates involved in recommendations to a panel of expert protection of this ecological foundation. stewardship efforts – and understanding the judges who score them and provide Science is an essential tool, helping us to knowledge, skills and values they bring to these feedback on their knowledge, proposed understand both the workings of the natural questions. solutions and presentation skill. systems we depend upon and the effects of our On a smaller scale, teams looked at two or A highlight of the experience is the practices within those systems. Understanding more pieces of land in their community that interaction between the teams and the the science of soil and water was an important in are significant for the question of local food judges when the scoring is completed. part of preparing to respond to this year’s and fiber production. Using field science and After the morning competition, teams Current Issue problem. laboratory research skills, they got to know have a chance to share their projects Teams were asked to research the potential the soil and water resource problems and informally at a lunchtime “EnviroTrek” for producing local food, fiber, and/or wood opportunities that these fields and/or forests session. represent. They talked with people who work Many teams take what they learn in with these specific pieces of land to learn more their Current Issue research and apply about the practices they employ, the values they it in a community action project. Any hold and the policies that affect them. team that demonstrates high research At both town-wide and smaller scales, teams standards in their Current Issue work, became familiar with the array of best practices or applies their Envirothon learning for soil health and water conservation that in a service project, is eligible for an might be appropriate. S Envirothon Community Award. S

4 www.massenvirothon.org 2017 Massachusetts Envirothon Current Issue Presentation Judges Judges as of May 16, 2017 • Thomas Akin, USDA Natural Resources • Robin Organ, Project Green Schools Conservation Service • Dominique Pahlavan, Exec. Office of • Peter Alden, Peter Alden Wildlife Energy & Environmental Affairs • Tracy Allen, UMass Extension • Gerry Palano, Mass. Dept. of Agricultural • Russell Anderson, Mass. Agriculture in the Resources Classroom • Juan Perez, U.S. Environmental Protection • Paul Barten, UMass Dept. of Environmental Agency, Region 1 Conservation • Kathleen Peterson, Mass. State Grange • Mary Bell, UMass College of Natural • Diana Phethean, Environmental Business Sciences Council of New England • Kim Bent, Catch The Science Bug • Denise Pires, Exec. Office of Energy & • Maggi Brown, Mass. Dept. of Conservation • MaryAnn DiPinto, Mass. Dept. of Environmental Affairs and Recreation - Boston Region Environmental Protection, Wetlands • Mark Protti, Institute for Training & Protection • George Buckley, Harvard University, Development Sustainability and Environmental • Nancy Eyster-Smith, Bentley University, • Timothy Randhir, UMass Dept. of Management Programs DCE Dept. of Natural & Applied Sciences Environmental Conservation • Jennifer Carlino, Town of Norton • Jennifer Fish, Mass. Dept. of Conservation • Vandana Rao, Exec. Office of Energy & & Recreation • Ben Carver, Mount Grace Land Environmental Affairs Conservation Trust • Priscilla Geigis, Mass. Dept. of Conservation • Martha Reichert, Exec. Office of Energy & & Recreation • Deborah Cary, Mass Audubon Environmental Affairs • Joel Ginn, UMass Psychological & Brain • Warren Chamberlain, State Commission • Heidi Ricci, Mass Audubon Science for Conservation of Soil, Water, and Related • Kevin Scherer, City of Worcester DPW • Karen Grey, Wildlands Trust Resources • Rebecca Schmidt, Psychology, UMass 2016 • Mary Griffin, Mass Audubon • Madeleine Charney, W.E.B. Du Bois Library • Myra Schwartz, U.S. Environmental • Calvin Chase, Mass. State Grange • Colleen Harper, Harper Farm Protection Agency, Region 1 • Peter Church, Mass. Dept. of Conservation • Stephen Harper, Harper Farm • Joseph Shoenfeld, UMass Center for & Recreation • Masoud Hashemi, UMass Stockbridge Agriculture, Food, and the Environment • Julie Coop, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & School of Agriculture • Dan Sieger, Exec. Office of Energy & Recreation • Christine Hatch, UMass Dept. of Environmental Affairs • Susan Cox, USDA Forest Service Geosciences • Ezra Small, UMass Amherst • Scott Davis, Mass. State Grange • John Hayes, Salem State University • Randy Stone, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & • Kathleen Davis, UMass School of Education • Doug Hjorth, Louis Berger Group, Inc. Recreation • Nancy Kaplan, Eversource Energy • Carol Szocik, Mass. Dept. of Agricultural Resources • Enku Kebede-Francis, Mass. Sierra Club Community Awards • Katie Theoharides, Exec. Office of Energy & Interviewers • Isaac Larsen, UMass Dept. of Geosciences Environmental Affairs • Marion Larson, Mass Div. of Fisheries & • Mary Trudeau, wetland scientist • Alison Bates, UMass Dept. of Wildlife Environmental Conservation • Sally Zielinski, Mass. Association of • John Lee, Allandale Farm Conservation Commissions • Linda Horn, UMass Extension • Brian Lickel, UMass Psychological & Brain • Joel Zimmerman, Mass. Dept. of • Shari Melto, Climate Cafe Science Conservation & Recreation, Div. of Water • Nathan Nesbitt, Boston College Physics • Jameson Long, USDA Animal & Plant Supply Protection Dept. Health Inspection Service, ALB Eradication Program Presentation Hosts • Antony Massop, USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, ALB Eradication • Jane Heinze-Fry, Museum Institute for Participating State Program Teaching Science Officials • Ann McGovern, Mass. Dept. of • Lauren Mattison, UMass Clean Energy • Matthew Beaton, Secretary of Energy & Environmental Protection Extension Environmental Affairs • Carl Melberg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, • William Miller, UMass Center for • John Lebeaux, Commissioner of Eastern Mass. NWR Complex Agriculture, Food, & the Environment Agricultural Resources • Sue Moore, Mass Audubon • Jennifer Norwood, Executive Office of • Leo Roy, Commissioner of Conservation • Jane Obbagy, Mass. Association of Energy & Environmental Affairs & Recreation Conservation Districts • Kris Scopinich, Mass Audubon • Kevin O’Brien, Mass. Sierra Club • Rep. Solomon Goldstein-Rose, Mass. • Sandra Thomas, UMass Center for House of Representatives • Robert O’Connor, Exec. Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Agriculture, Food, & the Environment www.massenvirothon.org 5 2017 Massachusetts Envirothon Volunteers Volunteers as of May 16, 2017 • Adam Green, USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service • Paul Gregory, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation • Lindsay Hansen, Student Conservation Assoc. • Bowen He, Envirothon Alumni: Newton North • Jane Heinz-Fry, Museum Institute for Teaching Science • Julianna Huang, Envirothon Alumni, Newton North • Tom Ashton, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & • Astrid Huseby, Mass. Div. of Fisheries & Recreation Wildlife • Bridgett McAlice, Mass. Div. of Fisheries • Gillian Badwan, Mass. Dept. of • Doug Hutcheson, Mass. Dept. of & Wildlife Conservation & Recreation Conservation & Recreation • William Miller, UMass Center for • Barbara Baedeker, USDA Natural • Jack Jackson, Town of Haverhill Agriculture, Food & the Environment Resources Conservation Service, Earth Team • Chris Jacobs, South Shore Natural Science • Matt Nash, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & • Moria Perry Barrows, Town of Granby, MA Center Recreation, North Region Coastal District • Daniel Beard, USDA Animal & Plant • Chelsea Jones, USDA Animal & Plant • Geoff Nelson, Mass Audubon, Drumlin Health Inspection Service Health Inspection Service Farm • Rachael Beikmohamadi, Mass Audubon, • Arron Juang, Student Conservation Assoc. • Jenny Norwood, Exec. Office of Energy & Drumlin Farm • Cali Knox Environmental Affairs • Phillipp Bolt, Harvard Extension School • Laura Krich, Mass Audubon, Drumlin • Paula Packard, Mass. Dept. of • Becky Bottomley, retired coach Farm Conservation & Recreation Water Supply • Wendell Cerne, Mass. Science Education • Guy LaChance, Mass. Dept. of Protection Leadership Assoc. Conservation & Recreation • Michele Padula, Mass. Dept. of • Chris Chisholm, Mass. Dept. of • Jim Lafley, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Agricultural Resources Agricultural Resources Recreation • Maggie Payne, USDA Natural Resources • Fletcher Clark, Mass. Dept. of • Jim Lagacy, Mass. Div. of Fisheries & Conservation Service Conservation & Recreation Wildlife • Chuck Pernaa, Town of Ashby • Patrick Cunningham, Mass. Dept. of • Pam Landry, Mass. Div. of Fisheries & • Les Perry, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Conservation & Recreation Water Supply Wildlife Recreation Protection • Elizabeth Laver • Christopher Perry, USDA Animal & Plant • Paula Davison, Mass. Dept. of • Moe Lavoie, Smithfield Foods Health Inspection Service Conservation & Recreation • Kaitee Levinson, Student Conservation • Tiara Perry • Irene Del-Bono, Irene Del-Bono Attorney Assoc. • Tia Pinney, Mass Audubon, Drumlin Farm at Law • Jameson Long, USDA Animal & Plant • Renata Pomponi, Mass Audubon, Drumlin • Eric Deleo, USDA Animal & Plant Health Health Inspection Service Farm Inspection Service • Kate Marquis, Mass. Dept. of Conservation • Denis Punch, Smithfield Foods • Patrick DeSantis, Retired Elementary & Recreation • Robert Purcell, USDA Natural Resources Teacher • Austin Mason, Consulting Forester Conservation Service • Joan DeSantis, Retired Art Teacher • Lauren Mattison, UMass Clean Energy • Dan Rankin, Smithfield Foods • Keith Dinardo Extension • Clif Read, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & • Onyksa Domenech, USDA Animal & Plant • Norah Mazar, Mass Audubon, Drumlin Recreation Health Inspection Service Farm • Jacqueline Richard, USDA Animal & • Laura Dooley, Mass. Dept. of Conservation Plant Health Inspection Service & Recreation • Daniel Roach, UMass Amherst - Student • Mike Downey, Mass. Dept. of Conservation • Garth Roeder, Mass Audubon, Drumlin & Recreation Farm • Andrew Drawec, Smithfield Foods • Glenn Rosenholm, USDA Forest Service • Kim Flanzer, Mass Audubon, Drumlin • Beth Ross, Mass Audubon, Drumlin Farm Farm • Kris Scopinich, Mass Audubon • Alynda Foreman, Louis Berger • Collin Shaughnessy • Norma Forgione, Mass. Dept. of • Kyle Shaughnessy Conservation & Recreation • Matt Shreiner, USDA Animal & Plant • Michele Girard, Mass. Assoc. of Health Inspection Service Conservation Commissions 6 www.massenvirothon.org 2017 Massachusetts Envirothon Volunteers About Our Host Site

• Kevin Siegel, Student Conservation Assoc. • John Simkins, Student Conservation Assoc. • James Sims, Student Conservation Assoc. • Richard Stabile, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation • Robin Stuart, Mass Audubon Drumlin Farm Staff • Flavio Sutti, Mass Audubon, Drumlin Farm • Sandy Thomas, UMass Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment • Gini Traub, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation • Catherine Ulitsky, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service • Rich Valcourt, Town of Phillipston • Rich Valcourt Jr., Consulting Forester • Joelle Vautour, Mass. Dept. of Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Conservation & Recreation • Sandy Verger, Mass Audubon, Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary • Mike Waterman, Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation rumlin Farm has been a strong presence to the people, land, water and air that enable • Erica Wiley, USDA Animal & Plant Health in the community since 1955, thanks to Drumlin Farm to thrive. Produce is grown Inspection Service D the ingenuity and foresight of Louise Ayer using organic principles and conservation • Kristina Wiley, USDA Natural Resources Hatheway (1876-1955), who bequeathed practices that build soil health and reduce Conservation Service Drumlin Farm to Mass Audubon. water and energy consumption. • Jennifer Woodard, Mass Audubon, Drumlin Farm Louise Hatheway invited urban children The United States Department of • Alison Wright, Mass. Dept. of Conservation to visit the farm and learn where their food Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation & Recreation came from. Her legacy has inspired Drumlin Service has partnered with Mass Audubon at • Janice Wright, Friends of Assabet River Farm’s mission of educating families and Drumlin Farm to improve their resources for National Wildlife Refuge children about the importance of community wildlife habitat and agricultural operations. • Dave Zimmermann, USDA Natural farming and environmental protection. Practices include improving wildlife habitat, Resources Conservation Service installing fencing and improving forage for You’ll find plenty to do on your visit, from a rotational grazing system and installing drop-in activities to native wildlife and trails. infrastructure to manage surface and Sheep, goats, chickens, pigs, cows and a pony subsurface water flow. greet you throughout the farmyard. Watch farmers do chores in the late afternoon. Stop In addition, more than 56 acres of Drumlin by the farmyard garden and check out what’s Farm are protected forever as farmland growing. under the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources' Agricultural The farmstand offers a variety of products, Preservation Restriction (APR) program. S including fresh vegetables, maple syrup, eggs, meat, goat’s milk soap, yarn and fleece. Millbury Jr./Sr. High School Drumlin Farm provides a long-term home Environmental Council for rehabilitated injured or human-habituated • Meg Lawson • Thomas Machacz wildlife, who would not be able to survive in • Kennedy Day • Nicole Rannikko the wild on their own. • Gianna Borowski • Diandra Lavallee Hike to the top of the drumlin, one of the • Carisa Beltran • Maddie Lavallee highest points in the greater Boston area. • Dominic Beyer • Nina Romeo On a clear day, the view from the top offers • Sam Stafinski • Alexis Roccanti a glimpse of both Mt. Monadnock and Mt. • Trenton Cano • Aiden Bourdeau Wachusett. • Hannah Bishop • Felicity Ulfves • Meg Schonborg • Haley Maynard Community-based sustainable farming • Hunter Swanson • Shawn Westerlind signifies Mass Audubon’s deep commitment • Emily Larue www.massenvirothon.org 7 2017 Massachusetts Envirothon Thank you!

The Massachusetts Envirothon is a program of the Massachusetts State Commission Sponsors for Conservation of Soil, Water & Related Resources. Our work would not be possible Leadership Circle ($10,000 & up) 30th Anniversary Friends of without contributions of time, resources and Envirothon ($30 & up) funding from these sponsors and partners. Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Mary E. Bell Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm EnviroTrek ($5,000 & up) Bill Dunham Wildlife Sanctuary U.S. Forest Service through Mass. Amie & Nick Facendola Renata Pomponi, Director Dept. of Conservation & Recreation  Geoff Nelson, Property Manager Carol M. Fineblum Robin Stuart, School & Groups Program Coord. Massachusetts State Grange Justin M. Gonsor Elizabeth McGuire Quabbin Level ($1,000 & up) Partners Clifton & Arleen Read George Buckley Alden Research Laboratory, Inc. Lisa & Rocco Trotto, Jr. Environmental Business Council of New Berkshire Conservation District England Fabulous Food Sponsors Cape Cod Conservation District National Grid New England Dairy Promotion Board Mass Audubon Peregrine Falcon Level ($500 & up) Wegmans Mass. Assoc. of Conservation Districts Green Newton Mass. Dept. of Agricultural Resources Prize Sponsors Smithfield Foods Mass. Dept. of Conservation & Mass Audubon Recreation Society of Soil Scientists of Southern Mass. Dept. of Conservation & New England Mass. Dept. of Environmental Recreation Protection Paxton Sandy Loam Level ($100 & up) Museum of Science Boston Mass. Div. of Fisheries & Wildlife (MassWildlife) Melinda Broderick New England Aquarium Bruce Brumburg & Karen Axelrod Mass. Executive Office of Energy & Other Sponsors Environmental Affairs Deborah Cary The New Studio Middlesex Conservation District Michelle Fineblum UMass Amherst, College of Natural Quan Lu & Jing Yuan Team Sponsors Sciences The Merck Foundation The following organizations and individuals UMass Amherst, Center for have sponsored teams directly: Agriculture, Food & the Environment/ Michelle & Joe Millstone Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary, UMass Extension Nathan Nesbitt Plymouth County Conservation District, Xhino Gjokollari and UMass Amherst, Dept. of Joe Smith Ransford Environmental Services. Environmental Conservation Will Snyder USDA Natural Resources Conservation Dr. George Zoto Service Special thanks to... the judges, volunteers, coaches, agencies,  Worcester County Conservation If you’d like to be a Mass. Envirothon organizations, schools, parents and all District sponsor/donor, go to whose hard work and support make the massenvirothon.org/get-involved/sponsor Mass. Envirothon possible! Worcester Technical High School 8 www.massenvirothon.org